Fiddle City
By (Author) Dan Kavanagh
Orion Publishing Co
Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
14th April 2015
12th February 2015
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
823.92
Paperback
208
Width 130mm, Height 198mm, Spine 16mm
184g
There's suspicion, smuggling and shady goings-on galore in the second novel in Dan Kavanagh's darkly humorous series, featuring bisexual private detective Duffy.
Everyone knows a bit of petty theft goes on in the freight business at Heathrow - it is fiddle city, after all. But things have gone beyond a joke for Roy Hendrick and he suspects someone who works for him is helping themselves to more than they should. That's when he sets Duffy on the case.A bisexual ex-policeman, Duffy runs a struggling security firm, has an obsessive attitude to cleanliness and can often be found propping up the bar at the Alligator. Duffy agrees to work for Hendrick and goes undercover to try and root out the culprit.But things aren't all they're cracked up to be. What's the story behind the imperious HR manager Mrs Boseley with her permanently frosty demeanour And is Hendrick really as honest as he claims to be Duffy's up to his neck in it.Exciting, funny and refreshingly nasty
The characterization is exact, the action gripping, and the writing pleasantly ironic - THE TIMESDan Kavanagh effortlessly jumped to the top of the crime writer's league - SPECTATORTreat yourself. One of the most colourful and entertaining English thrillers - EVENING STANDARDDan Kavanagh was born in County Sligo in 1946. Having devoted his adolescence to truancy, venery and petty theft, he left home at seventeen and signed on as a deckhand on a Liberian tanker. After jumping ship at Montevideo, he roamed across the Americas taking a variety of jobs: he was a steer-wrestler, a waiter-on-roller-skates at a drive-in eatery in Tucson, and a bouncer in a gay bar in San Francisco. He is currently working in London at jobs he declines to specify, and lives in north Islington.